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There were a handful of dudes that you did not want to piss off and who loved to fight including John from Circle One, Mike from Suicidal, Oliver from the LADS, Sean Emdy from FFF, Mugger and others. At most shows, there were fights, usually ten dudes kicking the crap out of one poor guy. Yes, the LA punk scene of the early 80s, which I dove headfirst into, was very violent. Was it as bad as it was made up to be? Please share with us some of the things you witnessed. LA had a bad reputation for being a pretty violent scene. I remember vividly the following things: an Adam Ant impersonator between bands getting booed and spit on the magnetic draw and simultaneous fear from being within arms reach of my first live slam pits almost getting beat up near one of the outer slam pits people getting crazy after the show and swinging off the flagpole outside on a rope my ears ringing the next day. The venue held a lot of people, at least 2000. But what did I know? I took the bus from the Valley to the show. It cracks me up to think of how badly I was being a poser. First of all, in preparation for this show, I had gone to a thrift store and bought some fucked-up old army jacket with bright brass buttons. My first show that really counts in my mind is Black Flag, DOA, Stains, and Minutemen at the Santa Monica Civic in June 1981. She took me to a live Cramps show at the Roxy in Hollywood and she took me to see the original Decline of Western Civilization – the absolute defining moment of my young life! Man, when I saw these completely crazy and original kids going nuts for this fast, energetic and aggressive music, it turned me on in a huge way. This was 1981 and I was already into Devo, which at the time was really different and attractive. Being cool was about being totally outside of normal society – in the clothes you wore, the attitude you took, the drugs you abused, how and where you fucked. She turned me on to all kinds of cool shit like the Dead Boys, the Cramps and the New York Dolls She was a punk in the real original way. How did you first find out about Hardcore Punk?ĭanny Slam: When I was 16 I hooked up with this crazy 19-year-old punk chick at my work. This interview with Danny Slam, vocalist for early 80’s SoCal Hardcore band America’s Hardcore was conducted in 2007 for the Double Cross site and was later used in my third book, Straight Edge – A Clear-Headed Hardcore Punk History.